ContextFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, and named after his ancestor Francis Scott Key, the author of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Fitzgerald was raised in St. Paul, Minnesota. Though an intelligent child, he did poorly in school and was sent to a New Jersey boarding school in 1911. Despite being a mediocre student there, he managed to enroll at Princeton in 1913. Academic troubles and apathy plagued him throughout his time at college, and he never graduated, instead enlisting in the army in 1917, as World War I neared its end. Fitzgerald became a second lieutenant, and was stationed at Camp Sheridan, in Montgomery, Alabama. There he met and fell in love with a wild seventeen-year-old beauty named Zelda Sayre. Zelda ﬁnally agreed to marry him, but her overpowering desire for wealth, fun, and leisure led her to delay their wedding until he could prove a success. With the publication of This Side of Paradise in 1920, Fitzgerald became a literary sensation, earning enough money and fame to convince Zelda to marry him. Many of these events from Fitzgerald’s early life appear in his most famous novel, The Great Gatsby, published in 1925. Like Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway is a thoughtful young man from Minnesota, educated at an Ivy League school (in Nick’s case, Yale), who moves to New York after the war. Also similar to Fitzgerald is Jay Gatsby, a sensitive young man who idolizes wealth and luxury and who falls in love with a beautiful young woman while stationed at a military camp in the South. Having become a celebrity, Fitzgerald fell into a wild, reckless life-style of parties and decadence, while desperately trying to please Zelda by writing to earn money. Similarly, Gatsby amasses a great deal of wealth at a relatively young age, and devotes himself to acquiring possessions and throwing parties that he believes will enable him to win Daisy’s love. As the giddiness of the Roaring Twenties dissolved into the bleakness of the Great Depression, however, Zelda suffered a nervous breakdown and Fitzgerald battled alcoholism, which hampered his writing. He published Tender Is the Night in 1934, and sold short stories to The Saturday Evening Post to support his lavish lifestyle. In 1937, he left for Hollywood to write screenplays, and in 1940, while working on his novel The Love of the Last Tycoon, died of a heart attack at the age of forty-four. Fitzgerald was the most famous chronicler of 1920s America, an era that he dubbed “the Jazz Age.” Written in 1925, The Great Gatsby is one of the greatest literary documents of this period, in which the American economy soared, bringing unprecedented levels of prosperity to the nation. Prohibition, the ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution (1919), made millionaires out of bootleggers, and an underground culture of revelry sprang up. Sprawling private parties managed to elude police notice, and “speakeasies”—secret clubs that sold liquor—thrived. The chaos and violence of World War I left America in a state of shock, and the generation that fought the war turned to wild and extravagant living to compensate. The staid conservatism and timeworn values of the previous decade were turned on their ear, as money, opulence, and exuberance became the order of the day. Like Nick in The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald found this new lifestyle seductive...

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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, and was raised in St. Paul, Minnesota. Though an intelligent child, he did poorly in school and was sent to a New Jersey boarding school in 1911. Despite being a mediocre student there, he managed to enroll at Princeton in 1913. But he never graduated; instead he enlisted in the army in 1917, as World War I neared its end. Fitzgerald became a second lieutenant, and was stationed at Camp Sheridan, in Montgomery, Alabama. There he met and fell in love with a wild seventeen-year-old beauty named Zelda Sayre. Zelda finally agreed to marry him, but her overpowering desire for wealth, fun, and leisure led her to delay their wedding until he could prove a success. With the publication of This Side of Paradise in 1920, Fitzgerald became a literary sensation, earning enough money and fame to convince Zelda to marry him. Having become a celebrity, Fitzgerald fell into a wild, reckless life-style of parties and decadence, while desperately trying to please Zelda by writing to earn money.
Fitzgerald was the most famous chronicler of 1920s America, an era that he called “the Jazz Age.” Written in 1925, “The GreatGatsby” is one of the greatest literary documents of...

...Title: The GreatGatsby
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Date of original publication: 1925
Genre: fiction, novel, drama
Historical information about the period of original publication: The novel was published during a time known as the “Roaring Twenties”. There was economic prosperity and America became a consumer society. There were many cultural and social reformations. Jazz music became popular, and flapper women emerged. Flapper women were women who wore makeup, short skirts, and kept their hair short; meaning they went against society’s acceptable behavior. Dancing became a big part of the social scene. The ‘20s were also known as the Jazz Age, because of the sudden popularity in Jazz music. The younger generation was open to the reform and urbanization. However, the older generation didn’t like the change. 1920 to 1933 was the Prohibition Era, which banned the sale of alcohol.
Biographical information about the author: F. Scott Fitzgerald was a Jazz Age novelist and a short story writer. He was born on September 24, 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He was born into an upper middleclass family. His first writing to be printed was a detective story he wrote when he was thirteen that got published in the school newspaper. He enrolled in Princeton University but dropped out to join the army. He fell in love with Zelda Sayre but she broke off the engagement as a result of his unsteady income. Despite his success as an author, Fitzgerald was...

...prosperous and life was good for most. In The GreatGatsby, published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald writes about the fictitious life of Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire (Gross 1). The setting of the novel is New York in the twenties, a time, and place, where people were jovial and carefree. In New York, more than anywhere, people did not worry about life's downs, but focused on the highlife and partying. Prohibition made partying difficult, but it prevailed nonetheless. In the novel, Fitzgerald's description of humans was of an appalling nature. He shows them as careless, greedy, and inconsiderate; much like they truly were in this decade. Inevitably he would become involved in some type of lackadaisical ways. Fitzgerald's writing's were significantly influenced by these surroundings. In The GreatGatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's writing was profoundly influenced by events in his life, the exciting times he lived in, and the people he knew.
Born on September 24, 1986 to a wealthy merchant family, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald showed signs of an exemplary writing ability (Dyson, 1380). As a small boy, Fitzgerald began writing down his thoughts and ideas. He frequently wrote about his life.
While in school, Fitzgerald was very self-criticizing and did not have many friends. He was not very popular at school, although he greatly wanted to be. Just like Fitzgerald, Gatsby did not like who he...

... American Literature
* Key Facts
* Full Title: The GreatGatsby
* Genre: Novel
* Setting: Long Island, Queens, and Manhattan, New York in the summer of 1922
* Climax: The showdown between Gatsby and Tom over Daisy
* Protagonist: Jay Gatsby
* Antagonists: Tom Buchanan
* Narrator: Nick Carraway
* Point of View: First person
* Historical and Literary Context
* Where Written: Paris and the US, in 1924
* When Published: 1925
* Literary Period: Modernism
The GreatGatsby is a novel written F. Scott Fitzgerald based on “The great depression” that took place in the 1920’s (also known as the “Roaring Twenties”) and lasted until 1929 when Wall Street Crashed.
The GreatGatsby represents a complex mix of emotions and themes that reflect the turbulence of the times. Fresh off the nightmare of World War I, Americans were enjoying the fruits of an economic boom and a renewed sense of possibility. But in The GreatGatsby, Fitzgerald’s stresses the darker side of the Roaring Twenties, its undercurrent of corruption and its desperate, empty decadence.
The setting of the novel contributed greatly to its popularity following its early release, but the book did not receive widespread attention until after Fitzgerald's death in 1940, when republishing’s in 1945 and...

...THE GREATGATSBY ESSAY
“I want to write something new-something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned. Masterpieces are not accidents. Geniuses know what they are doing or trying to do. They need luck, but knowing how to use the luck is an essential element of a writer’s equipment.”
This quote written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is quite phenomenal, and I agree with it 100%. It tells us a bit about Fitzgerald like he strives to make sure that the reader understands his books.
BIOGRAPHY
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 in Minnesota. He was not a bright kid at school so his parents sent him to a boarding school. Academic troubles and apathy overwhelmed him throughout his time at college, and he never graduated, instead he was enlisting in the army in 1917. Fitzgerald became a second lieutenant, and was stationed at Camp Sheridan, in Montgomery, Alabama. There he met and fell in love with seventeen year old girl named Zelda Sayre. Zelda finally agreed to marry him, but her overpowering desire for wealth, fun, and leisure led her to delay their wedding until he could prove a success.
Many of these events from Fitzgerald’s early life appear in his book, The GreatGatsby. In many ways, The GreatGatsby represents Fitzgerald’s attempt to confront his conflicting feelings about the Jazz Age. Like Gatsby, Fitzgerald was...

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Cover of the first edition (1925)
Author F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cover artist Francis Cugat
Country United States
Language English
Genre Novel
Published 10 April 1925 (Charles Scribner's Sons)
Media type Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages 218 pages
ISBN NA & reissue ISBN 0-7432-7356-7 (2004 paperback edition)
The GreatGatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The GreatGatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.[1][2]
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...hard to be able to say how you feel, whether out of shame or just not wanting to share. When F. Scott Fitzgerald could not say how he felt about his dwindling marriage he turned it into fiction by writing his wife, Zelda, into Daisy Buchanan. Fitzgerald not only portrayed Zelda in Daisy but also displayed his relationship with Zelda in both Daisy’s relationship with Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship with Tom.
Although Daisy is fictional she seems to be inspired by Zelda. He does this by having Daisy be from a wealthy southern family, by having Daisy be popular with the young men, and by having Daisy be a little bipolar. Ben Phelan states, in “The Legend of Zelda (Sayre Fitzgerald)”, that Zelda Sayre was born into an upper-class family in Montgomery, Alabama and was, “by all accounts, the pre-eminent belle of Montgomery” (Phelan). By pre-eminent belle Phelan is saying that she was beautiful and the boys in town wanted to be with Zelda. Daisy mirrored this idea because she was born in to a wealthy, southern family and was popular with the boys when she was eighteen. This shown on page seventy-nine in The GreatGatsby when Fitzgerald writes, “The largest of the banners and the largest of the lawns belonged to Daisy Fay’s house… She was just eighteen, two years older than me, and by far the most popular of all the young girls in Louisville” (Fitzgerald). By saying that Daisy’s house had the largest of lawns, Fitzgerald implied that she...

...Introduction
“The GreatGatsby” is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published in 1925, it is set on Long Island's North Shore and in New York City from spring to autumn of 1922. The novel takes place following the First World War. American society enjoyed prosperity during the “roaring” as the economy soared. At the same time, prohibition, the ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol as mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment, made millionaires out of bootleggers. After its republishing in 1945 and 1953, it quickly found a wide readership and is today widely regarded as a paragon of the Great American Novel, and a literary classic. The Modern Library named it the second best novel of the 20th Century.
Author’s biography
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, and named after his ancestor Francis Scott Key, the author of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Fitzgerald was raised in St. Paul, Minnesota. Though an intelligent child, he did poorly in school and was sent to a New Jersey boarding school in 1911. Despite being a mediocre student there, he managed to enroll at Princeton in 1913. Academic troubles and apathy plagued him throughout his time at college, and he never graduated, instead enlisting in the army in 1917, as World War I...